Current Season
Stage Center Theatre | 2025-2026 Season
Fall 2025
9th Annual Nuevas Voces Playwriting Festival
Directed by Leo Aranda, CMT alumna
Founded by alumnus and former Northeastern professor Jim Blair to create a platform at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï for new playwrights, Nuevas Voces is a thrilling launch point for new work from Northeastern and its vibrant community. Featuring multiple prize-winning short plays selected from an extensive competition, Nuevas Voces reveals the complexity of our human experience through the many lenses that make up Northeastern.
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1st Place, $250: HANDY DANDY by Kevin Simonds (Current NEIU Student)
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2nd Place, $200: ROCK ON by Jess Molina (Current NEIU Student)
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3rd Place, $150: INEVITABLE by Myrcedes Edwards (Community Member)
Performance Dates
- 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2; an opening reception begins at 6:30 p.m. and talkback session at the conclusion of the opening night.
- 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3
- 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Oct. 4
GROWING UP WITH BIG HAIR by
Directed by Guest Artist Emilio Williams
Workshopped in thINKtank 2025 in partnership with Bramble Theatre, this piece continues our commitment to developing works through thINKtank and seeing them fully realized on our stage! Emilio returns to Stage Center following his own plays being workshopped in thINKtank with Leslie a few years ago.
Based on a true story, Growing Up with Big Hair is a coming-of-age dramedy about a young Chicago Latina girl in the 70's, who's immigrant father dreams of moving West - where the grass is greener and the people, Whiter. When the family moves to an all-White Chicago neighborhood, Anna finds herself wrestling with her identity, as much as she wrestles with her hair. With a little laughter and a lot of Dippity-Do, she struggles to find her place in-between. When she discovers her family's secret on her 18th birthday, she is finally confronted with the truth of who she really is.
Performance Dates
- 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 - Nov. 15
- 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19 - Nov. 21
- 2:00 p.m. Nov. 22
Spring 2026
FULL-ON CLEOPATRA by
Directed by SCT Artistic Director Adam Goldstein
Co-Produced with Silk Road Cultural Center (Black Bear Island)
A traveling soothsayer, Asim, wanders into the courtyard of Cleopatra’s palace and starts chatting with the queen’s handmaiden, Charmian. He promises to read her fortune. As the unhappy future of the court begins to unfold, this soothsayer soon becomes a witness, then finally a participant in the last days of Cleopatra and Antony. A bold, darkly comedic examination of the fleeting glory of power and the intimacy of those that share it in two of history’s great partnerships.
Performance Dates
- 7:30 p.m. Apr. 15 - Apr. 17
- 3:00 p.m. Apr. 18 (Private Event)
- 7:30 p.m. Apr. 22 - Apr. 24
- 3:00 p.m. Apr. 25
thINKtank!
An innovative new play development series featuring NEIU students and alumni in Partnership with Bramble Theatre
Performance Dates
- April 2026